> bethexton_at_... wrote:
>
> > 5) The long-house is described in a fair degree of detail, except for
> > one thing: doors. How many and where?
> ...
> > Normally I wouls assume on the short walls
> ...
>
> Long houses have their a door in each long wall. If the long house is
> a byre house (or is otherwise divided in two) the doors will be at
> the division between the two parts.
>
If (big if) we take British Anglo-Saxon longhouses[1] as a model, then each long wall will have a door near the middle and opposite each other. This will form a short passage, often with a byre on one-side and living area on the other. These houses often had doors in one or other of the short sides as well, if such were convinient.
[1] Such longhouses match reasonably well with those described in thunder rebels, although they were normally narrower than TR suggests.
Cheers,
Graham
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